Thanks jhough for starting this thread. Scott The hardest hit areas were Mexico Beach, Tyndall Air Force Base, and Callaway. jhough has relatives in Apalachicola also affected. Our power is estimated to return on 24-OCT, based on our Gulf Power outage website. We did not evacuate. I brought my mothe...

Interesting read on this thread and your WordPress. You touched on LODO. Are you running a loc line sparge ring above or below the surface of the mash? What did High Gravity supply for this? I'm interested in how you/they addressed this.
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It's been over a year since I brewed last. I don't have an interest in brewing anymore or drinking for that matter. If anyone would like to buy me out of my hobby, I'm willing to negotiate a price. Most of what I own is probably photographed already in my google signature link. PM me if interested. ...

I haven't brewed in 14 months. I think that I lost interest in the hobby. I shifted interest in restoring two commercial grade espresso machines, one is slowly being restored now from a complete breakdown and descaling.

I did the hydro in the test jar for a lager of mine. It worked perfectly, just as PP said it would do. The only caveat is to start with a full test jar and then add top up water because of evaporation, if needed along the way. 11-JUN; Pitched, hydro jar in fermenter chamber to monitor progress using...

This comes from a member on the low oxygen website, which I am too. quote=stpug post_id=6616 time=1509030173 user_id=69] Fix wrote about the potential for a combination of marginal yeast coupled with mechanical abuse during packaging, coupled with oxygen in headspace, to lead to spontaneous diacetyl...

Hopefully some of this article will help? I've never done slants, is that freezer dependent? If you go refrigerator route maybe some points on this article will be useful, especially point #5 and the fact that the yeast have something to slowly chump on until the next brew day. http://www.lowoxygenb...

Well it turns out that something has gone wrong with my sanitizing and cleaning regimen with bottling... Normally keg so am most dialed in for that. Brews in the last competition didn’t do that well and a couple got slammed. Sounds like I got some bad things in the bottled beer that shouldn’t have ...

I got three paid days off because of the storm, Friday, Monday and Tuesday as I work at a college and our local school system was closed due to the decision of our emergency management officials and the governor of the state.

I'm good here and the whole part of the panhandle (north west Florida).. Joe and his family are good, last check, via text, but he lost power like much of the state did. He was able to pull a line from his neighbors generator ( normally that's just for refrigerators, floor lights and floor fans 110 ...